Posts tagged with "Donald Trump"

January 17th, 2019An array of crises will keep several world leaders away from the annual World Economic Forum in Davos next week, which takes place against a backdrop of deepening gloom over the global economic and political outlook.
Anxiety over trade disputes, fractious international relations, Brexit and a growth slowdown that some fear could tip...

January 17th, 2019Michael Cohen, a former lawyer for US President Donald Trump, said on Thursday he paid a firm to manipulate online polling data "at the direction of and for the sole benefit of" Trump.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Cohen had paid the data firm Redfinch Solutions to manipulate two public opinion polls in favor of Trump before...

December 31st, 2018US President Donald Trump might visit Britain in May 2019 after the country's departure in March from the European Union, the US ambassador to Britain, Woody Johnson, said on Monday.
Asked whether a state visit promised by Prime Minister Theresa May last year could be rescheduled to coincide with a commemoration of the end of World...

December 27th, 2018President Donald Trump made a surprise Christmas visit to US troops in Iraq on Wednesday, his first trip to a conflict zone nearly two years into his presidency and days after announcing a pullout of American troops from neighbouring Syria.
Trump was looking for some positive headlines after several days of turmoil over his...

December 21st, 2018US President Donald Trump on Friday threatened a "very long" government shutdown just hours ahead of a midnight deadline, calling on the Senate to pass spending legislation that includes his $5bn demand for border wall funding and seeking to shift blame for a holiday showdown to Democrats.
The Republican-led Senate had already...

December 21st, 2018Afghan officials and America's Western partners reacted with unease on Friday to reports that the United States planned to withdraw more than 5,000 of its 14,000 troops from Afghanistan, after tentative steps towards peace talks.
Although there has been increasing acceptance in Kabul that US President Donald Trump was impatient for...

December 13th, 2018A rush of Democrats will likely announce US presidential bids in January in an unusually early start to the 2020 election cycle, lining up for what is poised to be a crowded race to take on President Donald Trump.
Democrats are riding a wave of enthusiasm after taking control of the House of Representatives in last month's...

December 13th, 2018U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Mexico is paying for a border wall through trade and he did not mention the subject on a call with his Mexican counterpart, as he focuses on getting the U.S. Congress to fund the project.
One of Trump's key campaign promises was to build the border wall he said will slow the flow of...

December 7th, 2018U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday called former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson "dumb as a rock" and "lazy as hell" a day after the former diplomat publicly said he had warned the president against doing things that would violate the law.
"Mike Pompeo is doing a great job, I am very proud of him. His predecessor, Rex Tillerson,...

December 3rd, 2018The US Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed a challenge by three conservation groups to the authority of President Donald Trump's administration to build a wall along the US-Mexico border, a victory for Trump who has made the wall a centerpiece of his more strict immigration policies.
The justices' declined to hear the groups' appeal of a...

November 30th, 2018US President Donald Trump on Friday defended his decision to seek a business deal in Russia in 2016 even as he pursued the Republican presidential nomination, calling it "very legal" and "very cool" to keep running his business while campaigning.
In a series of tweets from Buenos Aires, where he is attending the G20 summit, Trump also...

November 28th, 2018President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday shrugged off a threat from U.S. President Donald Trump to cancel a meeting with him due to Moscow's seizure of three Ukrainian navy ships, and accused Ukraine's president of orchestrating the crisis.
Russia seized the Ukrainian vessels and their crews on Sunday near Crimea, the Ukrainian region...

November 27th, 2018Britain responded to US President's Donald Trump warning about the future of anglo-American trade with a firm rebuttal on Tuesday, emphasising that a trade deal was still possible and that work towards it was making good progress.
Trump said on Monday the agreement by which the United Kingdom will leave the European Union may make...

November 19th, 2018US President Donald Trump said he does not want to listen to an audio recording of the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi despite facing mounting pressure to punish Saudi Arabia for the killing.
Khashoggi was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct 2, and Turkey has given the US government a recording of the...

November 14th, 2018U.S. President Donald Trump attacked his French counterpart on Tuesday in a series of tweets that underscored how much the once-friendly ties between the two leaders have soured, just two days after returning from Paris.
In five posts sent on the same day that French officials marked the anniversary of the 2015 terrorist attacks that...

November 8th, 2018US progressive groups will stage hundreds of protests nationwide on Thursday to demand that President Donald Trump do nothing to hinder an ongoing investigation into Russian meddling to help him win the 2016 US election.
The protests, operating under the banner 'Nobody is Above the Law' and led by the activist group MoveOn, called for...

November 8th, 2018Watch this extremely heated exchange between President Trump and CNN's Jim Acosta in which Trump walks away from the podium, then tells Acosta he's a 'rude, terrible person.'
Full story here...

November 7th, 2018Donald Trump faced greater restraints on his presidency after Democrats won control of the US House of Representatives and pledged to hold the Republican accountable after a tumultuous two years in the White House.
Trump and his fellow Republicans expanded their control of the US Senate in Tuesday's midterm elections, following a...

November 5th, 2018It's good to be boring in these uncertain times, Switzerland's president said on Monday, in a light-hearted swipe at US President Donald Trump and Britain's Brexit referendum.
Alain Berset, speaking at a lunch hosted by the Swiss Foreign Correspondents' Association, said the Swiss political system was hard for foreigners to get to...

November 3rd, 2018US congressional candidates hammered into the homestretch of a bruising campaign season on Saturday, with Democrats focused on protecting a 2010 healthcare law while President Donald Trump touted economic growth and sounded dire warnings on immigration.
Control of both houses of the US Congress, currently dominated by Republicans, and...

November 3rd, 2018US federal authorities have awarded a 145 million US dollar contract to a company to build six miles of wall along the US-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley.
US Customs and Border Patrol said Friday that SLSCO, based in Texas, will begin construction of an 18-foot reinforced concrete levee wall in February in the agency's McAllen...

November 3rd, 2018Iran's top leader said on Saturday U.S. President Donald Trump's policies face opposition across the world as Washington prepared to reimpose sanctions on Iran's vital oil-exporting and financial sectors, state television reported.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also said Iran's arch-adversary the United States had failed to reassert its...

October 31st, 2018US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the United States could send as many as 15,000 military troops to the border with Mexico, as he hardens his stance against a caravan of migrants fleeing violence and poverty in Central America.
The Pentagon earlier has said it has identified about 7,000 active-duty troops, including about...

October 30th, 2018US President Donald Trump plans to push an executive order to end the right of US citizenship to children born in the United States to non-citizens and immigrants in the country illegally, he told Axios in an interview published on Tuesday, a move that would prompt a constitutional fight.
It was unclear what specific action his order...

October 27th, 2018The Florida man suspected of mailing at least 14 pipe bombs to some of U.S. President Donald Trump's leading critics was in custody on federal charges on Saturday, in a case reflecting the rancor of one of the most toxic election campaigns in decades.
Cesar Sayoc, 56, a part-time pizza deliveryman, grocery worker and former stripper...

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